Characterization of corn oil biodiesel and its application in diesel engine

ABSTRACT

Present paper deals with preparation, characterization, and application of biodiesel (BD) prepared from corn oil by using transesterification process. As prepared corn BD is characterized by CHNS, FTIR, ^HNMR, and GC-MS analysis and its properties are compared with fossil diesel. Based on CHNS analysis of BD, high C/H ratio (1.898) and low O/C ratio (0.06445) is obtained and empirical formula of BD is CH_1.898N_0.000322S_0.000047O_0.06445. Four-stroke, single cylinder diesel engine coupled with hydraulic dynamometer is experimentally tested by blending mixture (BM) of variable BD composition of BD with fossil diesel. Based on diesel engine performance, among the seven different blended mixtures of BD, BM containing 25% BD is the most efficient composition of BD in BM at all loading conditions (1–5 kg).

KEYWORDS:

• Biodiesel
• biofuel
• diesel engine
• transesterification
• combustion

Additional information

Notes on contributors

Prashant Saini

Prashant Saini is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology Gorakhpur, since 2015. He has Research and teaching experience for 5 years.

Chandan Gupta

Chandan Gupta is an MTech student of Mechanical Engineering Department, Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology Gorakhpur.

Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology Gorakhpur, since 2016. He has industrial, research and teaching experience for 8 years. He has completed good number of research and consultancy projects on energy and environmental area. Presently he is working on the production of energy from biomass including algae and wastes, gasification, pyrolysis, microbial fuel cells, water and wastewater treatment. He has published Six book chapter and 14 papers in peer reviewed international journals. He is a reviewer of some reputed international journals.